WSTA on Moodle

Moodle is an online learning environment being tried out in Sussex Schools and the Open University. It has millions of users worldwide. WSTA has its own Moodle course.
The WSTA Moodle course is a Sackville Moodle course but teachers employed outside Sackville have access to it.

There is what Jonathan Ross would call a rather roundabout and rigmarolish way of doing this.
You need to email wstalearn@yahoo.co.uk from your wsgfl email address. We can then add you to this course.

If you do not have a wsgfl email address then you will be added with the username of your first initial and surname.

This course will have information about the NUT CPD programme and forums about common problems with . . .

* databases and spreadsheets
* word processing
* video
* Moodle - the Modular Object Oriented Digital Learning Environment
* Virtual Learning Environments generally
* Whiteboards
* Staying safe on Facebook
* Anything else you can think of

Click here to join the course

LA Teachers End 24-Day Hunger Strike

In Los Angeles, a group of teachers have ended their twenty-four-day hunger strike to protest budget cuts. The teachers said they will now organize a campaign to recall some members of the Los Angeles Unified School Board. Thousands of Los Angeles teachers may soon be fired as the district faces a $700 million budget gap.

News story from Democracy Now - online news TV programme from America

Helpline or email

More and more members are using email in preference to the helpline. The helpline email is wstalearn and the service provider is @yahoo.co.uk and it is another way to keep in touch with us. You will get a reply as soon as possible.

Posters and Leaflets for the SATS campaign

A poster and leaflets for parents and teachers in the forthcoming SATS campaign can be downloaded.

Click here

UPDATE Brighton Gay Pride

For the first time WSTA will have a stall at Gay Pride on 1st August 2009 in Brighton. More details as we get them.